how investors have fueled growth in the technology industry and what it is done to the country. here is part of the conversation. the digital medium has specific characteristics. and what it is doing us is it is causing to us to understand that machines that can remember it more powerfully than we ourselves can imagine reduce our human stature in a way that has never been experienced before. and in the face of that kind of apocalyptic unveiling of this new form of technology, this new medium, all the standard boilerplate answers that have come to us that have been handed down through modern modern philosophy, postmodern philosophy. follow your passion and all that kind of stuff. those answers to the ultimate question, who are we? why are we here? why bother? what s the point? those answers starts melting down pier they don t have the grip on us, the hold on us they